Seems to me that unless technology finds a solution, football as we know it is eventually going away.
Seems to me that unless technology finds a solution, football as we know it is eventually going away.
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I think so too. Gladwel's premise is that the correlation between playing football and CTE is about the same as the correlation between mining and black lung disease in 1918, or cigarettes and cancer in the 1960's. His question is "what is the burden of proof before correlation becomes causation?"Originally Posted by LA Ute
Really sad. Football is such a great sport.
If it does go away, I can envision one of three replacements on campus:
1) Nothing replaces it. University athletics in general fade away.
2) Soccer becomes big.
3) E-sports become big.
The U should have a men's soccer team. It's a great sport, and it may be big someday. We just added lacrosse, which has no potential to become big as a spectator sport.
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